Chironius quadricarinatus ( Boie, 1827 )

Nogueira, Cristiano C., Argôlo, Antonio J. S., Arzamendia, Vanesa, Azevedo, Josué A., Barbo, Fausto E., Bérnils, Renato S., Bolochio, Bruna E., Borges-Martins, Marcio, Brasil-Godinho, Marcela, Braz, Henrique, Buononato, Marcus A., Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F., Colli, Guarino R., Costa, Henrique C., Franco, Francisco L., Giraudo, Alejandro, Gonzalez, Rodrigo C., Guedes, Thaís, Hoogmoed, Marinus S., Marques, Otavio A. V., Montingelli, Giovanna G., Passos, Paulo, Prudente, Ana L. C., Rivas, Gilson A., Sanchez, Paola M., Serrano, Filipe C., Silva Jr., Nelson J., Strüssmann, Christine, Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo S., Zaher, Hussam, Sawaya, Ricardo J. & Martins, Marcio, 2019, Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna, South American Journal of Herpetology 14 (s 1), pp. 1-274 : 18

Chironius quadricarinatus ( Boie, 1827)

Type locality. Brazil .

Distribution. Endemic to Brazil ( Plt. 128A ). Widespread in the Cerrado, Atlantic Forest, and with isolated records in Pantanal and savanna enclaves in Amazonia ( Plt. 128A ), mostly at intermediate to high elevations ( Plt. 128B ). Previous maps and taxonomy in Dixon et al. (1993). Observed in the field in grassland, savanna, and coastal grassland ( Nascimento et al., 1991; Dixon et al., 1993; FranÇa and Araújo, 2006; FranÇa et al., 2006).

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Plate 128. Distribution map of Chironius quadricarinatus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.